Bowen's reaction series

American  

noun

1. Petrology. a description of the order in which minerals form as magma cools and solidifies, accounting for the tendency of certain minerals to occur together.

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Bowen's reaction series Scientific  

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1. A schematic description of the order in which minerals form during the cooling and solidification of magma and of the way the newly formed minerals react with the remaining magma to form yet another series of minerals. The series is named after American geologist Norman L. Bowen (1887–1956), who first described the scheme.

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